Wrocław University Library
University Library in Wroclaw – a friendly place for people with disabilities
Facilities in the library building, Joliot-Curie Street 12:
Spacious library lobbies, doorless doors and convenient Braille elevators make it easy for people with disabilities to get around the building.
At the Library Information Point, level 0, the on-call librarian will help and answer all questions.
In the accessibility agendas (reading rooms, information room, free access area to the collections), workstations with raised table tops have been prepared and wide intervals between shelves have been provided, which facilitate access for a person with a disability of the locomotor system.
Toilets are located on each level, are adapted for use by people with disabilities.
Use of the collection – facilities:
Users with disabilities have at their disposal in the collection sharing agendas (the Main Reading Room in the Wrocław University Library (BUwr) building at K. Szajnochy Street 7/9 and in the Reading Room of the Current and Archival journals, in the Silesian Reading Room (Czytelnia Śląska), in the Reading Room of Special Collections and in the Information Room – the Wrocław University Library building at Joliot-Curie Street 12) computer stands adapted for displays on the content monitor, a voiced-over reading the selected text and a magnifying glass enlarging the text.
Students of the University of Wrocław with disabilities also have the opportunity to obtain the right to use licensed electronic resources outside the Wrocław University network (via a proxy server) on the same rights as employees and participants in doctoral studies at the University of Wrocław.
Rental of collection:
Users with disabilities have the right to appoint a representative who will lend and prolong library materials on their behalf (in accordance with the rules for making available the collections of the university library in Wrocław, § 50.2-3). Users with disabilities also have the statutory right to borrow more publications and for a longer period of time (§57.1 of the Regulations).
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